• BX Home
  • Activist Shareholder: News [Page 10]

Join Business Exchange
to access the most
relevant content for you,
filtered by like-minded
business professionals.
Learn more

ACTIVIST SHAREHOLDER

Activist shareholders are investors who use their ownership stakes in publicly traded companies to influence strategic changes in the hopes of increasing shareholder value. The goals of activist shareholders vary from financial (i.e., increasing value) to non-financial (i.e., moving to sustainable practices). Prominent activist shareholders include pension funds, such as Calpers and Calsters, as well as hegde fund managers like Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Chris Hohn.

Activist Shareholder is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Todd Walker. This topic contains 491 news and 159 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about Activist Shareholder. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on Activist Shareholder from like-minded professionals.

News

Recent news on this topic.

Buyers line up at Blockbuster auctionmore

fund Monarch Alternative Capital, to create a floor for future bidding, initial offers have also been made by activist...

A Key Takeaway From Buffett's Blundermore

up in our mailboxes and vote our opinions on these important issues. Moxy Vote, an online vehicle for shareholder...

UPDATE 1-Funds approached Carrefour to buy Dia unit-sourcesmore

dividends. [ID:LDE72117P] The plan has, however, failed to impress analysts who were disappointed by its cost, while...

Governance group urges new rules for picking directorsmore

because existing options are prohibitively expensive or so cumbersome they are likely to fail. Shareholders can launch...

Showdown in Pasadena for Ameron, Baringtonmore

1:02 p.m. EDT By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) �� A heated proxy battle between Ameron...

Ameron shareholders vote dissident onto boardmore

to its full potential for shareholders. Ameron, in turn, questioned Mitarotonda's "integrity and ethics.

MARKET REPORT: Katherine the Great is raidedmore

Dundee-based Alliance Trust, who was nicknamed 'Katherine the Great' during her early stellar career, needed news that...

Activist hedge fund wins Ameron board seatmore

Group won a seat on the board of industrial company Ameron International Corp. on Wednesday, ending a heated proxy...

Judge tosses Icahn's Lionsgate suitmore

Activist shareholder wanted debt-for-equity swap rescindedBy A New York judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought...

Who's Targeting Your Stock?more

the data to see which companies drew the most flak from labor-union pension funds, a common form of activist...

Call for shake-up at National Expressmore

Extract not available.

At Forum for Deal Makers, M.&A. Meets the Lawmore

these types of boards and whether they will begin to lobby more widely for laws that support them. SHAREHOLDER...

Hedge Funds: Showdown in Pasadena for Ameron, Baringtonmore

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) ��� A heated proxy battle between Ameron International and activist hedge-fund firm...

Midnight ours! CB6 tells controversial bar to close early on weekendsmore

free kids brunch on weekends. In the big picture, opposition to his bar can be seen as a proxy battle in the long fight...

Credit Outlook: Headlines May Change, but the Themes Remain the Samemore

management teams look to expand in faster-growing categories and geographic markets. Adding to the credit risk for...

Activist Investors Turn to Social Media to Enlist Supportmore

industry conference in Berlin this month, David Rubenstein, a co-founder of the private equity giant Carlyle Group,...

VenGrowth sale saga continuesmore

after VenGrowth Asset Management Inc. and Covington Capital reached an agreement, and which now plans to launch a proxy...

Blockbuster���s Former CEO on Sparring with an Activist Shareholdermore

with board members, energizing organizations, and dealing with shareholders, but most leaders are ill prepared to...

Google Says Microsoft?s Latest Android Lawsuit Threatens Innovationmore

follows last October?s , another key Google Android partner. Taken together, these developments suggest that Microsoft...

Google: Microsoft's Latest Android Lawsuit Threatens Innovationmore

attack on Motorola, another key Google Android partner. Taken together, these developments suggest that Microsoft is...

In Prime 6 fight, the bar owner has two facesmore

would do the same thing. On a wider level, opposition to Ofsteins bar can be seen as a proxy battle in the long fight...

U.S. Reacts to Fear of Iran's Rising Cloutmore

support if Syria's protest movement swells. The Persian Gulf remains the most important flash point in the proxy battle...

Week in Review: The Proxy Battle in Bahrainmore

move had immediate consequences for Middle East politics, and for American policy: It transformed Bahrain into the...

Week in Review: The Proxy Battle in Bahrainmore

move had immediate consequences for Middle East politics, and for American policy: It transformed Bahrain into the...

Private equity banker to be Amalgamated CEOmore

assets of $450 million. The LongView Funds, since their inception in 1992, have pursued a program of aggressive...

Top Sources: Activist Shareholder

  • hedgetracker.com
  • Forbes.com
  • Reuters
  • commodity-tips-call.blogspot.in
  • Globe and Mail
  • sufiy.blogspot.co.uk
  • Wall Street Journal Online
  • Variety
  • Financial Post
  • option-future-tips.blogspot.in

Most Active Users in this Topic

see all contributors in Activist Shareholder

Featured White Papers

Post a Job

Jobs in this Topic

GSAM, Fundamental Equity - Proxy Voting/ESG Team, Senior Analyst/Associate Goldman Sachs Group | Salt Lake City, UT
Posted: May 10
CIB Hedge Fund Services / Alt Inv Trans... J.P.Morgan. | Boston, MA
Posted: May 24

Report comment contains invalid characters. ()
cancel
Search Cancel